Bruce Arians is Crying About Officiating

That sound you hear is Bruce Arians whining, complaining… and potentially painting a picture outside a Parisian creperie.

Arians told reporters today that the Cardinals have sent about 15 plays (mostly penalties) from their loss to the Eagles to the league so they can be reviewed:

Bruce Arians opened his press conference today saying he was going to follow league protocol and send video examples into the league on plays with which the Cards questioned the penalties called or not called. This is not unique; Teams across the league often do it. “There were obviously problems in the ball game,” Arians said. “There is a protocol to follow. We followed the protocol.

“(NFL VP of officiating) Dean Blandino does a great job being honest on the calls. We will follow up more with the answers … later.”

Arians said the Cardinals sent in “about 15″ plays for the league to look at. He also said “I’ve already gotten most of the answers. I got them before I left the locker room (Sunday.)” Arians added those answers came “from New York,” i.e. the league office. And he admitted that he did not get any satisfaction from those answers. “I just get madder,” Arians said.

The dagger came in the waning moments with the Eagles holding a three-point lead and facing a 3rd-and-4 from the Arizona 9. Foles rolled to the right and, with no options in the pass game emerging, kept it and fell to the ground to make sure he stayed in-bounds. Matt Shaughnessy was called for a hold on Casey. (An irate Daryl Washington was later whistled for unsportsmanlike conduct). That gave the Eagles a fresh set of downs, allowing Foles to take a knee to end the game.

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It’s not so hard to figure out why Moose got his panties in a bunch. Remember, he played for the Cowgirls, so it’s obvious his anti-Philadelphia bias emerged for all to hear. As for Bruce, ditch the hat, homeslice, Kangols look good only on Samuel L. Jackson.

Eh, a little busch league for whining about it but I really cant blame him for bitching about the officiating as a whole, cause they did get boned. But the eagles got boned too. The refs were whippin out the rag for every minute little thing on both sides. Either way, we got the win, so fuck it.

Posts article about typos and grammatical mistakes on philly.com; follows it up with a post containing his own typo/grammatical mistake; absolves himself of responsibility by picking and choosing when blogging is a legitimate medium by saying, “It’s what happens when you don’t have an editor.”

Boo fucking hoo, Bruce. I’m still waiting to see evidence of the hold on the DeSean Jackson punt return for a TD that was called back. They never said who it was called on and the fox replay was clearly showing the wrong guy. That cost us 7 points. There were bad calls on both sides, but that holding call was not one of them. Instead of bitching about the refs, why don’t you blame you and your GM for having Carson Palmer as your quarterback.

You Eagle fans are hilarious!! You think you have a chance to win a Super Bowl. New Orleans (which is a better team) is getting dumped on in Seattle. I can’t wait until the massacre which will occur when they have to travel to New Orleans or Seattle in Round 2.

What made Moose’s call even worse was the fact that he said it shouldn’t be a penalty because the play was a designed bootleg run, which means he’s a blind idiot who doesn’t notice that Foles is running to his right trying to pass the ball to an eligible receiver who’s jersey is blatantly being held. As soon as I saw it I knew they were going to call it. Even worse was him coddling Washington by saying that everybody knew it was a bad call. Friggin moron.